The incident started around 3
a.m. when Melton was trying to sleep on the sidewalk.

He was disturbed by exhaust fumes and loud music coming from a
Porsche SUV nearby, according to a release from the Metro Nashville Police
Department.

Police said Melton asked the driver of the Porsche, later
identified as Quackenbush, to move the vehicle. The two started arguing,
“with both parties yelling at each other,” but eventually Melton walked
back to where he had been attempting to sleep, police said.

Quackenbush allegedly got out of the Porsche with a gun and fired
two shots at him, one of which hit Melton in the abdomen. She then
fled the scene in her Porsche, according to the release. A police
spokesman told HuffPost that Quackenbush was with another woman who is not
facing charges in the case.

Melton was critically wounded and remains hospitalized at
Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Quackenbush was charged with attempted murder Monday evening
with bond set at $25,000. She was later released from jail, according to local
station WTVF.

Her father, Texas attorney Jesse Quackenbush, claimed that his
daughter shot Melton out of self-defense. He said she only intended to fire
warning shots, not hit Melton.

Her
father released an official statement to WTVF.

“The two women were actually acting in self
defense. The man was always on his feet and not asleep as someone apparently
has alleged and had accosted a group of very young women and nearly became
physical with one. He then approached the white Porsche (not Lexis) with two
female occupants and started verbally accosting them threatening them because
their music was too loud for him to sleep...

“The driver fired a round as a warning to
scare him away as he came at her. He kept coming and she fired a second round,
again intended to scare him away. They quickly got back into the white vehicle
and left, not knowing that the man was hit by the warning shots. Both girls contacted
the police and DA shortly after the incident and have always agreed to
cooperate fully with the investigation.”

Jesse
Quackenbush told the Tennessean that his daughter has been wrongfully charged.

“She’s
never done anything like this in her life,” he told the paper. “She had an
eyewitness in the front seat.”

Court
records obtained by Heavy.com show that Katie Quackenbush has no prior
criminal convictions, but has been charged with assault twice.

In
October, 2013, the Amarillo Police Department arrested her on a misdemeanor
domestic violence-related assault charge, which was dismissed six months later.

Last
December, she was arrested in Potter County, Texas, and charged with misdemeanor
assault. That case is still pending.